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Divergence toward the Far East: A Survey of UK-North Korean Relations
When it comes to countries that have well-established diplomatic relations with North Korea, outside of fellow Communist countries and a few small African countries, the United Kingdom might be one of the last in a list of guesses. However, as SinoNK analyst David Matthew shows in this overview of the United Kingdom’s official relations with […]
Weekly Digest: LSE, Working Papers and Cuban Dancers
Here is a quick round-up of recent SinoNK staff activity and a video tribute to Corea del Norte. – Steven Denney, Assistant Editor Understanding the Trade-Security Nexus in the KORUS FTA | Economics does not live on an island, she co-habitats with security in a realm known otherwise as Northeast Asia. Assistant Editor Steven Denney and […]
The Political Economy of Economic Reform: Using Trade to Keep the Debate in Bloom
The Political Economy of Economic Reform: Using Trade to Keep the Debate in Bloom by Steven Denney Although North Korea may be a thorn in China’s side, it has been duly noted that China does not wish to see political collapse; the twin nightmare scenario of refugees flooding across the border into Northeastern China and […]
Reading the Riot Act and the Technology Revolution: Weekly Digest
This week’s digest covers a plethora of Peninsula-pertinent issues, and represents the substantive introduction of my Yonsei University colleague, Brian Gleason, to SinoNK readers. Gleason, along yours truly, arrives with some original reporting on the issue of North Korean jamming of flights out of Inchon. Thus, if you are in-bound to Seoul, the digest suggests that you may want to […]
Anti-Rat Bombast and Rational Conference: Weekly Digest
Spring arrives, and with it, the season for demonstrations of all kinds — spontaneous, coordinated, repressed. Comrades in Zhongnanhai are hardly ignorant of the fact, but it is the North Korean leadership that has taken mobilization to new levels with the blossoming weather. After all, there is no point in ending up like Syria. Steven […]
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